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Deadly blast targets police near Kenya-Somalia border
[Al Jazeera] At least four children and four coppers have been killed in a roadside kaboom in southeastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia, according to police.Noah Mwivanda, a police brass hat in Lamu County, said Tuesday's blast happened between Mararani and Kiunga towns. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The deadly incident bore the hallmarks of similar bombings blamed on Somalia's al-Shabaab ...  Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...gang, which has previously targeted security forces in the region. It increases the corpse count from homemade explosives in the last three months to 46, with coppers as the majority of fatalities. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-28 |
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